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Originally Posted by Donger
What tripe. Last time I checked, it was right around $190 to apply and file for residency, and the forms are readily available.
* Edit - I was wrong. It's $330 to file form N-400, Application for Naturalization.
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Meanwhile, for around $1000, you can secure an illegal path across the border, and for another $500 you gan get a transport to the midwest in a vehicle that's unlikely to be stopped in the INS heavy southwest states.
It has nothing to do with expense.
It does have to do with ignorance. You're talking about people coming from villages with only one phone for the entire village. People that still believe in myths and obscure herbal remedies. All it takes is Uncle Juan from the US to tell them that it's too hard to come in legally, and it's the gospel.
Too many people believe it really is easier to come in illegally, and in many ways it is. They can get here in a week illegally by borrowing money from someone already here.